[mythtv-users] OT? Hardware Differences
R. G. Newbury
newbury at mandamus.org
Thu Apr 13 18:59:01 UTC 2006
Brad Benson wrote:
> On 4/13/89, *R. G. Newbury* <newbury at mandamus.org
> <mailto:newbury at mandamus.org>> wrote:
>
>
> Both drives are on the same 80 conductor cable IIRC and the problem
> drive has no OS, so 'swapping' them would be difficult to implement
>
>
> Actually, it shouldn't be hard at all. Download and burn yourself a
> knoppix CD. Boot your desktop from the knoppix disk and run your hdparm
> tests. Shut down, swap the drives, boot back into knoppix and run your
> hdparm tests again.
Actually I hadn't thought of using a live distro. I have a Rescue Is
Possible disk which will do the trick.
Thanks.
Geoff
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